Israel Accepts Appeal Against New Settlement Plan In Hebron

Sunday March 04, 2012 01:08 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Higher Planning Council, running under the Military leadership in the occupied West Bank, accepted an appeal against a construction plan for a new Israeli settlement, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Arabs48 news website reported. File – […]

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Occupy AIPAC to Protest Netanyahu’s US Visit

MARCH 2 2012 WAFA WASHINGTON, March 2, 2012 (WAFA) – Occupy AIPAC, which calls for a new American foreign policy in the Middle East, Thursday kicked off a week of actions to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the Unites States and his push for war on Iran, according to a statement issued […]

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Representative to Canada: Help Israel Save Itself

WAFA MARCH 3 2012 OTTOWA, March 3, 2012 (WAFA) – Palestine’s representative to Canada, Said Hamad, Friday urged Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to advise Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory for the sake of Israel’s future. In an open letter to Harper posted in the Canadian […]

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Birzeit students on hunger strike

[ PIC 03/03/2012 – 09:47 AM ] EL-BIREH, (PIC)– A spokesman for the Islamic bloc in Birzeit University has declared that the students would go on hunger strike on Saturday. He said in a press release on Friday that the students would continue in their sit-in inside the university campus until all their demands are […]

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Shalabi adamant on hunger strike until her release

[ 03/03/2012 – 11:38 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Detained young woman Hana’a Shalabi has declared insistence on continuing in her hunger strike until her release from Israeli administrative custody. Shalabi in a message carried by lawyer of the ministry of prisoners said that she would not accept any bargaining on her freedom. “The Israeli occupation […]

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Protest outside Hasharon prison in solidarity with Shalaby on Sunday

[ PIC 01/03/2012 – 09:55 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Popular and human rights activists called for a protest outside Hasharon prison on Sunday to express solidarity with Hana’ al-Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike for the past two weeks to protest her administrative detention. The organisations calling for the protest said that it will […]

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The haunting of Daniel Pipes by Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” – by Franklin Lamb

Franklin Lamb AL MANAR MARCH 3 2012 — Beirut Daniel Pipes (left) shares a photo with Geert Wilders, the man helping fan the flames of his PNAC’s “New Pearl Harbor.” Daniel Pipes, the anti-Arab Islamophobe is reportedly spooked these days. “Actually he has become an almost terrified man”, so says a colleagues at Pipes Islamophobic […]

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Egyptians gather in protest outside US Embassy in Cairo

Egyptian protesters during a rally in Cairo on February 10, 2012. PRESS TV Sat Mar 3, 2012 6:30PM GMT Egyptians have gathered outside the US Embassy in the capital Cairo in another anti-American rally, aimed at showing support for Bahrainis and Palestinians. Shouting anti-US slogans, protesters demanded the expulsion of the Bahraini envoy to Egypt. […]

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Report: Jordan to notify Israel of Palestine’s conditions for talks

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Jordan’s foreign minister will outline Palestine’s conditions for returning to negotiations in a message to Israel, Arab media reported on Friday. The document demands Israel accept the two-state solution based on 1967 borders “with the possibility of a limited exchange of equal pieces of land,” and […]

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Shepherds in Jordan Valley ‘harassed for picking plants’

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 TUBAS (Ma’an) — Shepherds in the northern Jordan Valley have been harassed by the Israeli authorities for picking an edible plant they say is protected, a village council head said Saturday. The villages of al-Maleh and al-Madareb lie in an area of Israeli control in the Tubas governorate, and […]

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Palestine to give Israel talk deadline

AUSTIN NEWS MARCH 3 2012 Updated: Saturday, 03 Mar 2012, 1:49 PM CST JERICHO, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials said Saturday they plan to give a deadline to Israel to accept ground rules for negotiations, and suggested that a ‘no’ will allow them to shelve Mideast talks until it does. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas […]

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Fatah, Hamas inmates ‘on hunger strike in Palestinian jails’

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Fatah spokesman Ahmad Assaf on Saturday told official PA media that party affiliates detained in the Gaza Strip were attempting to launch a hunger strike, but had been repressed. Earlier this week, Gaza-based media said four Hamas detainees in a West Bank jail had started a […]

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Israeli forces ‘demolish caravan on ministry land’

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 TULKAREM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished a caravan containing agricultural equipment on land belonging to the PA Ministry of Agriculture north of Tulkarem on Saturday, witnesses told Ma’an. Military vehicles tore down the caravan in Qafeen, destroying the agricultural equipment inside, in the Ahrash area cultivated by the Palestinian […]

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EU’s Ashton says Israeli TV station raids break accords

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warned on Saturday that Israeli raids of two Palestinian television stations breaks international accords, and threatens Palestinians state-building. Israeli forces raided Watan TV and Al-Quds Educational TV, both in the Ramallah-district, and confiscated broadcasting equipment early Wednesday. An Israeli […]

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Taher lashes out at PA security coordination with Israel

[ PIC 03/03/2012 – 02:33 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Politburo member of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine Maher Al-Taher has told reporters on Saturday that the PA should immediately halt security coordination with Israel. He championed instead, during a meeting with reporters, laying down a unified strategy to develop the internal Palestinian […]

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